Definitions For Commonwealth

noun

• A politically organized body of people under a single government
• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
• A world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
• The official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
• A group of countries or states that have political or economic connections with one another
• A U.S. state
• A political unit that is like a U.S. state but that pays no federal taxes and has only a representative in Congress who does not vote